OTHER OPINIONS
EDITORIAL EXPRESSION
NOT SPIRIT OF CRICKET
(Received May 8, noon.) LONDON, May 7. Duckworth, in an interview, says that the wholo thing boiled down to the simple fact that some of the Australian wizards were frightened to death of Larwood. .> The "Weekly Dispatch" says that none Of the team expects Larwood to use body-line ' bowling except on rare occasions. The ball hire swings far longer in the air and the wickets are livelier. Also there is the time limit. Every member of the team, he says, backs the captain, therefore there can only be one answer to the Australian cable, namely, a polite refusal. The "Daily Herald," in an editorial, says: "There will be many supporters of the' idea of a suspension of the Tests as the simplest solution of the difficulties arising from leg-theory bowling. Certainly nobody will care to carry on if all Tests aro to be played in the lurid atmosphere which surrounded the last series, but surely such an atmosphere and spirit is not inherent in cricket. The abandonment and rupture of cricket relations will reflect credit on nobody and will not serve as a good advertisement of what are supposed to be the traditional sporting qualities of Britons."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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205OTHER OPINIONS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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